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Genesis 25:18: The widest address in Genesis, and the only ground Ishmael is ever given

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Genesis 25:11ESV

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at .

ESV

They settled from to , which is opposite in the direction of . He settled over against all his kinsmen.

Genesis 26:1ESV

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Abraham's life
Jacob's life

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